Low End Bee

I can only think of roasted maple as a new ice cream flavour. Like salted caramel.

Sounds like he's sampled a fruit machine. If you're playing it in a pub you can stick 10p in and mic it up.

I used it in some of the songs with breaks where just me and the drummer were playing to fill out the sound and make it more interesting. I use a DOD Ice box I picked up for £20 a few years ago. It's great for bass. Worth keeping an eye out for one.

Because of this thread I listened to Nevermind last night as I quite liked it at the time. Well I listened to some of it. It's OK but not as good as I remembered it being. I've tried to like RHCP but I don't. Soundgarden I haven't even tried liking. All 3 albums are a bit too American and heroiny for me.

21 hours ago, Clarky said:

Recently acquired MIJ in aged Candy Apple Red with competition stripe. Wearing La Bella Mustang flats

Love it Mr C. In both our teams colours

Glad I joined the club too. I'm now thinking about getting a 2nd Mustang! They're so much fun to play.

I've got a kind of reverse one too.

We turned up on time for soundcheck. Reasonably well known band is not there. Promoter rings them. They're running late will not make soundcheck. Can they use our drums and bass amp. We soundcheck. It sounds great. They turn up 20 minutes before going on during the last 5 minutes of our set. They spend the 15 minute break reconfiguring the kit, including removing a tom and tuning it up to the drummers preferred slack skinned style. They leave the drum mics where they were out of position. The bass player just sets my amp flat. It sounds OK. The drums sound pretty horrible despite the guy on the desks best efforts. We support them again at another venue. Exactly the same thing happens. Get told by the promoter they don't want to play with us again due to the drums sounding so bad....

to be fair I don't think I've ever had significantly worse sound when being the support band. We always turned up on time and were polite and fuss free even when having to wait around and only getting a line check.

H'way Toon if you're a Geordie...

Otarrn around here

I'll put forward Graham Maby.

1 hour ago, Graham said:

I don't mind the headstock shape per se, it's not good, but I could live with it if I loved everything else about the bass.

The font though 🤮

 

Yep. The font and the hash leaves options devalue the brand from the off.

I put a set on my P Bass. They seamed pretty good quality. On a par with the Elites and Fender sets I tried.  I'm probably not the best judge though as every time I put a set on they're off within a week. I realise now I just don't get on with flats.

Yeah. I'd move on too.

On 15/09/2019 at 17:11, Bluewine said:

I'm an an electric bass guitarist.

I always felt bassist and bass players were guys that play double or stand up bass.

Blue

I've always thought of myself as a bass guitarist too. It confirms the type of low register instrument played.

Bassist sounds like a political affiliation. Bass player is OK. Not too serious.

When asked I what I play I will often reply. "In time unlike my band mates".

I use a Gator mixer bag for my TC and Mark Bass heads. Works perfectly.

There's a range of sizes

https://www.gatorcases.com/mixer-bags-lightweight-cases/

A few years ago I would have said I was definitely the reliable and reasonable one. On reflection I can, and have been, as difficult a bugger in bands as any of the other members.

210 or 112 should be fine. You can always get another cab later on.

I'm a fan of solid colours.Black, daphne blue, LPB, CAR and white in particular. I don't like seeing wood grain. Even though my P bass is 3TSB I dislike sunburst. It was annoyingly by far the best one I tried. I don't like tort or pearloid scratchplates either. Give me black or white any day. The white pearl one on my JMJ Mustang is destined for the spares drawer. Racing stripes are perfectly acceptable too.

17 minutes ago, chris_b said:

Small body Framus Star bass. 60 watt Nashville valve bass amp. 412 Crook bass cab.

All pretty good gear for a learner and the aim from day 1 was to go gigging.

I worked all summer to buy the bass and amp, then worked all the next summer to buy the cab.

Intrigued by the Nashville amp. Never hear of that brand.

First 'rig' in 1977 Avon EBO copy through a WEM Westminster 15W bass combo. Truly dreadful bass but the WEM was quite decent and pretty loud for 15W.

First gig rig 1979. I had got myself a part time job in a music/hire shop when I should really have been at school. Bass was a  black Shergold Marathon which I'd bought and a rig which the manager let me borrow. The guitarist also worked there with me and played his Satellite Les Paul through a shop rig too. We were support and offered the headline band backline share but they declined thinking we would have Woolworths practice amps. We played through a Marshall half stack and an Ampeg SVT with an 8x10. It was hilarious.

After that  was a bit of a come down. I part exchanged the Shergold for a 1968 P bass that wasn't a good one frankly and played through an HH100 VS bass head paired with a hugely woofy 1x18 ex sound system cab.

It's what happens when you play Jazz basses...

It's not just us bass players though. The drummer in the Jetsonics was far more concerned about hearing me loud and clear on stage than I ever was.

On 06/08/2019 at 19:33, martthebass said:

I know this is probably heresy but.....has anyone changed the flats to rounds on their JMJ? Now I think the flats it comes with sound awesome, it’s the nicest stock sound of any of my basses but the tension is just too high for comfort for me. Can anyone recommend a lower tension set that would work or god forbid a set of more compliant rounds?

Heresy committed. I've put that set of Prosteels I mentioned before on. The JMJ now sounds big, punchy and nasty. Perfect for me.It feels a lot more rock n roll. I do like it with flats but I much prefer it with rounds. The neck doesn't need any tweaking. The set up is still bang on.The string tension feels a little less too.

12 minutes ago, thebassist said:

I've had to do this myself and have previously used two Aguilar Tone Hammer pedals into the PA (I play in stereo) and it worked great.

Pardon me, what is FOH?

Front Of House

17 hours ago, hooky_lowdown said:

I used to do this alot with a DI pedal to FOH. Sometimes though a small combo is useful as a monitor.

This is always my preferred way as well. I'm sure the happy smiling face (maybe an exaggeration in some cases) of a sound person when you inform them your DI'ing from a Sansamp has got me from a muddy afterthought to actually sounding like an actual bass in the mix a few times too.

I wanted to sound like Jean-Jacques Burnel when I bought my Avon EBO in 1978. I thought all basses sounded the same. I think it cost £135. According to google that equates to £667 in 2019. Plywood. Fake single coil. Awful build quality. I ended up sounding like I was playing a rubber band stretched over a shoe box. It also had an action you could limbo under. Truly a terrible thing that needed killing with fire. Modern entry level basses are so much better. Amazing to think you can quite happily gig with something that costs £100 new now.

Bumparooney. This is a very lovely, big sounding 6 string thing that I was going to keep but i appear to have bought a maple necked Tele by mistake.

Hit me with an offer.